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by Shannon Maganiezin
David S. Vogel is a world-renowned data scientist and predictive modeler. He has won the prestigious KDD Cup several times and the Heritage Health Prize in 2013. His wife, Thais Lopez Vogel, an attorney, manages VoLo Foundation. Together, they are raising six kids. David's research led them to become aware of the devastating economic impact of carbon pollution. They knew they had to do something for their kids and future generations. VoLo Foundation exists to be the bridge between the science community and everyone else. The Foundation's work accelerates change and global impact by supporting science-based climate change solutions, enhancing education, and improving health. Climate Correction™ is the premier climate solutions event in the Southeast. The main stage event brings top minds in climate solutions to one stage. Now, their cutting-edge research and solutions-focused education are available for streaming all year long on VoLo's Climate Correction Podcast. Podcast Host Shannon Maganiezin leads VoLo Foundation's public-facing initiatives, working closely with the press, media, and strategic partners to amplify VoLo's mission and impact.
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- Oct 1, 202658 min
From the Floor: Sustainability Voices from the Southeast
From the Floor: Sustainability Voices from the Southeast Recorded Live at the Southeast Sustainability Directors Network Annual Meeting (2026) Here's what nobody tells you about climate work: the people actually doing it are extraordinary. I'm talking about the ones who show up inside city halls, county offices and in the field every single day and make it their job to protect their communities from what's coming. This episode is about them. We showed up to the Southeast Sustainability Directors Network Annual Meeting as a sponsor, and we brought a portable podcast studio (a recorder, a mic, and a folding stand) because we knew if SSDN got these people in a room, we needed to capture it. The SSDN is a peer learning community for the practitioners. These are sustainability directors, resilience managers, and program officers embedded inside local governments across the Southeast. They are not lobbyists. They are not theorists. They are the people doing the work. We asked everyone the same three questions: Where are you from, and what are your residents actually dealing with right now? What is your municipality doing to respond? And what's a win? Something that worked. Something that gave you hope. Eight people sat down with us. Eight different geographies, eight different sets of pressures, eight different proof points that this work is worth doing. Kayla Caselli is the Sustainability and Resilience Officer for the City of Tampa, Florida, and that title alone tells you something. Tampa sits on one of the most beautiful and most vulnerable estuaries in North America, and Kayla is hel
- Sep 1, 202624 min
Food: The Ultimate Messenger
Title: Food: The Ultimate Messenger In this episode, we're looking at a warming world through a lens you may not expect: your dinner plate. Our guest is Mike Hoffmann, who has spent his career helping people understand the impacts of carbon pollution through the foods we all love and need. Mike has written on the subject for outlets including The Hill, Fortune, Medium, and USA Today, and is the lead author of Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need, published by Cornell Press in 2021. He's also delivered a TEDx Talk, "Climate Change: It's Time to Raise Our Voices," and has given more than 150 related talks over the course of his career. Mike grew up on a one-cow dairy farm, served in the Marines during the Vietnam War, and went on to hold multiple leadership roles at Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, where he now holds the title of Professor Emeritus. As he puts it, he intends to keep telling this story for as long as he can. The conversation opens with a snapshot of where things stand this fall with extreme weather, from wildfires and rising heat to the incoming El Niño, setting the stage for the deeper conversation about food. From there, Mike explains why he chose food as his entry point into this story rather than energy, sea level rise, or extreme weather, and what makes it such a powerful and relatable way to reach people. He and host Shannon Maganiezin dig into how food itself is changing due to excess greenhouse gases (GHGs), including troubling shifts in nutritional quality, the vitamins, proteins, and essential minerals that our diets depend on. Mike also shares a story about pizza, one he's found to be a surprisingly effective way to illustrate the far-reaching effects of a warming climate on the foods we love, drawn from the many presentations he's given on the topic. The discussion turns to his teaching at Cornell, where he leads a course called <span class= "NormalTextRun S
- Aug 1, 202638 min
Nature Finance is Upside Down: What the 2026 UNEP Report Reveals
For every dollar the world invests in protecting nature, it spends thirty dollars destroying it. In this episode of the Climate Correction Podcast, host Shannon Maganiezin sits down with two of the authors behind the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) State of Finance for Nature 2026 report to unpack what that staggering imbalance means for biodiversity, climate resilience, economic stability, and the future of finance itself. The numbers are sobering: in 2023 alone, roughly $7.3 trillion flowed into nature-negative activities, while just $220 billion supported nature-based solutions. Shannon is joined by Ivo Mulder, who leads UNEP's Climate Finance Unit and has helped unlock more than one billion dollars for sustainable agriculture, forestry, and restoration across developing countries. Ivo is one of the report creators. Ivo co-founded the Natural Capital Finance Alliance and the ENCORE tool, laying the groundwork for the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures. Also joining the conversation is Michael König-Sykorova, Senior Project Manager at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and a leading expert in climate and nature finance data. Michael contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report and led key analytical components of the State of Finance for Nature 2026 report. He iwas lead author on this report and is also a founding member of the Climate Finance and Sustainability Centre at Makerere University in Uganda. The conversation begins with Michael walking listeners through the scope and methodology of the report, including how the team defined and measured nature-negative finance across sectors, what qualifies as nature-based solutions finance, and how the two sides of the equation can be meaningfully compared. He shares what the data reveals about trends over time, whether progress is moving fast enough, and how the report's findings were validated through rigorous peer review.<span class="EOP Selected SCXW151290551 BCX0" data-ccp-props
- Jul 1, 202642 min
Voices of Florida Farmers: Building a Circular Bioeconomy
Florida agriculture quietly underpins everyday life in the Sunshine State, shaping everything from grocery prices and water quality to how communities bounce back after a hurricane. In this episode of the Climate Correction Podcast, host Shannon Maganiezin sits down with the team behind the newly released report, Voices of Florida Farmers: Building a Circular Bioeconomy, to explore how the state's farmers, ranchers, foresters, and aquaculturists are producing more with less land, water, and resources, while keeping food affordable and local economies strong. Leading the conversation is Courtney Girgis, the report's lead author, who grew up on a beef cattle, corn, and soybean farm in northern Missouri and now writes about agriculture from her family's small-acreage farm in Oklahoma. Courtney unpacks what a "circular bioeconomy" means in practice: an approach to agriculture that moves away from the linear "make, use, waste" model and instead keeps nutrients, water, and materials cycling, starting with healthy soil and extending outward into partnerships across the food system. Joining her are three of the Florida producers featured in the report. Beaver Yoder, a Florida Panhandle cattle rancher, partners with neighboring crop farmers to graze his herd on cover crops between cash crop seasons, a practice that builds soil health, fertilizes fields, and creates a new revenue stream for everyone involved. Lanette Sobel, founder of Fertile Earth Worm Farm (now the largest commercial composting operation in South Florida), works across a wide network of distributors, food pantries, and farms to make sure food scraps go to their "highest <span class= "TextRun SCXW252141129 BCX0" lang="EN-US"
- Jun 1, 202631 min
When the Grid Goes Down: Decarbonizing Disaster Response
Season 6 | Episode 135 Episode Title: When the Grid Goes Down: Decarbonizing Disaster Response When disaster strikes, most people see only devastation. Will Heegaard, founding director of The Footprint Project, sees an opportunity. His perspective was shaped by his work as a paramedic deploying solar refrigeration during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa with International Medical Corps, and by hands-on disaster relief with Team Rubicon across Louisiana, Minnesota, and Puerto Rico, Will developed a guiding philosophy rooted in working with disruption rather than against it. In this episode, he brings that lens to one critical intersection in climate action today: what happens when the communities most battered by climate-driven disasters are also the ones least equipped to rebuild. The Footprint Project was founded on a simple but radical premise: every disaster is a rebuilding moment, and every rebuilding moment is a decarbonization opportunity. Will walks us through the organization's mission to deploy clean energy and sustainable technologies directly into disaster response and reconstruction, turning cascading climate emergencies into entry points for long-term resilience. Rather than treating green infrastructure as a luxury reserved for later-stage recovery, The Footprint Project embeds it on the front lines from day one. Central to that model is the Beehive Microgrid, a portable, scalable clean energy system designed to power frontline community organizations when the grid fails. Will explains how these microgrids work, who they serve, and why putting energy sovereignty in the hands of local organizations is as important as the technology itself. He also shares on-the-ground examples from recent projects along the Gulf Coast, in Appalachia, the Caribbean, and California that show how this approach works in real communities. With the 2026 hurricane season here, Will closes with something rare in climate conversations: concrete, actionable guidance. From individual households to community coalitions, he outlines what meaningful preparedness looks like before the next storm makes landfall.
- May 1, 202621 min
Code Green: Climate Resilience on the Hospital Front Lines
Hospitals exist to protect human health, yet they sit squarely on the front lines of climate risk. They are among the most energy-intensive buildings in our economy, operating 24/7 with zero tolerance for failure. The healthcare sector itself is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. A difficult paradox emerges: how do you care for people without contributing to the very conditions that make them sick? In this episode of the Climate Correction Podcast, we explore how one children's hospital is tackling that challenge head-on, turning sustainability into a core element of clinical and operational strategy. Our guest is Mike Solak, Executive Director of Design, Construction, and Infrastructure at Nicklaus Children's Hospital. With decades of experience on both sides of the healthcare construction equation, as a hospital owner-operator and as a consultant on large capital projects, Mike brings a rare, dual perspective on what it takes to move an institution from sustainability intentions to measurable impact. We dig into why hospitals consume more than 2.5 times the energy per square foot of the average commercial building, and what is really driving that footprint. Mike walks through the first concrete decisions and investments that put Nicklaus Children's on the map as a national sustainability leader, and which data points proved most persuasive in winning over finance teams, facilities staff, and executive leadership. The conversation digs into the cost of sustainability improvements, especially when viewed through the lens of power disruptions, fuel price volatility, extreme heat, and flooding. Mike makes the case that the investment in energy efficiency and resilience planning lowers operating costs over time, reduces risk exposure, and <span cla
- Apr 1, 202625 min
Peatlands 101 - Florida's Hidden Climate Superpower
Season 6, Episode: 133 Peatlands 101 - Florida's Hidden Climate Superpower In this episode, we're joined by two leading scientists from The Nature Conservancy to explore one of the most under-recognized natural climate solutions on the planet: peatlands. Catherine Fitzgerald, global lead for peatlands at The Nature Conservancy, brings a wealth of expertise in unlocking equitable and durable opportunities to conserve and restore peatlands worldwide. With a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University and years of experience as a professional wetland scientist, Catherine leads TNC's global work to protect these ecosystems for climate, water, and people. Morgan Higman, climate strategy director for The Nature Conservancy in Florida, focuses on accelerating clean energy and natural climate solutions across the state. Her doctoral research in public administration and policy at Florida State University's Askew School was supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Research and Education Foundation. Peatlands are ancient wetlands made up of layers of partially decayed plant matter that have accumulated over thousands of years. Bogs, swamps, and fens all fall into this category. Though they cover just 3% of the planet, peatlands store one-third of the world's soil carbon and 10% of its freshwater. That's more carbon than all the world's forests combined. Healthy peatlands filter water, buffer communities against floods and drought, reduce wildfire risk, and support unique plant and animal species. When drained or disturbed, they flip from carbon sinks to carbon sources, releasing stored greenhouse gases and compounding the very climate risks they once helped prevent. Catherine and Morgan walk us through why Florida is a standout state for peatland restoration. A 2025 TNC spatial analysis identified Florida as having some of the greatest restoration potential in the Southeast, with the St. Johns River Water Management District emerging as a priority area. With support from VoLo Foundation, TNC is conducting a deep-dive assessment of high-opportunity sites across the region, bringing together water management districts, local landowners, scientists, and community partners to identify lighthouse projects that can catalyze action at scale. This work is part of TNC's broader global peatland strategy, with active initiatives across more than a dozen countries and states, including North Carolina, Minnesota, Colombia, and Mongolia. In North Carolina alone, TNC was recently awarded a $200 million EPA grant to restore and protect approximately 43,000 acres of peatlands. Florida's program builds directly on those decades of groundwork, with the goal of creating a replicable framework for the entire Southeast. Learn more: <span style= "mso-ascii-font-family: Aptos;
- Mar 1, 202618 min
Meet the 2026 VISTA Award Winners
In this special episode of Climate Correction Podcast, we celebrate the power of student-led climate innovation and announce the 2026 VoLo VISTA Award Winners. The VISTA Award, created by VoLo Foundation, recognizes students who exemplify leadership, vision, innovation, sustainability, technology, and action-oriented climate solutions. This year's winning project does all of that and more. We are joined by an extraordinary research team from the University of Miami Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering. The team includes Jasmine Rodriguez, a first-year PhD student; Farzad Rezaeicherati, a second-year PhD candidate; Sevil Ozsut, also a second-year PhD candidate; and their advising professor, Dr. Ali G. Together, they are advancing a breakthrough solution at the intersection of materials science, climate mitigation, and Florida's natural ecosystems. Their winning project is called Functionalization and Pre-Carbonation of Florida-Native Algae Biochar for Carbon Negative Cementitious Composites. It reimagines one of the most carbon-intensive materials on Earth: concrete. Cement production alone accounts for roughly eight percent of global CO₂ emissions. This team is tackling that challenge head-on by replacing a significant portion of cement with algae-derived biochar sourced from Florida-grown algae. In simple terms, the team transforms algae into a charcoal-like material that naturally traps carbon. They then chemically treat, or "functionalize," this biochar so it bonds effectively with concrete, overcoming a major limitation seen in past biochar-concrete experiments where strength and durability were compromised. Their innovation doesn't just maintain structural performance; it enhances it. Even more importantly, the process permanently stores CO₂ inside the concrete itself, turning a traditionally high-emissions material into a carbon-storing one. During the episode, Jasmine walks us through the science behind the process, the climate and construction challenges they set out to solve, and how this novel idea emerged. The team explains how they measure success through rigorous lab testing at the University of Miami, evaluating strength, durability, workability, and long-term carbon storage. We also explore what large-scale, real-world application could look like, from infrastructure and buildings to broader adoption within the construction industry. The conversation turns toward what's next: scaling the research, refining the material, and moving closer to real-world deployment. The team shares how the $25,000 VISTA Award grant will directly support advanced testing, materials optimization, and the next phase of development needed to bring this solution closer to market. Then comes the moment no one saw coming. The interview was presented as a screening with "finalists." At the end, host Shannon Maganiezin reveals the truth. This team isn't just in the running; they are the 2026 VoLo VISTA Award Winners. The episode closes with a raw, joyful reaction that captures the heart of climate innovation, young leaders doing serious science, rooted in place, and driven by the belief that better solutions are possible. This ep
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David S. Vogel is a world-renowned data scientist and predictive modeler. He has won the prestigious KDD Cup several times and the Heritage Health Prize in 2013. His wife, Thais Lopez Vogel, an attorney, manages VoLo Foundation. Together, they are raising six kids. David's research led them to become aware of the devastating economic impact of carbon pollution. They knew they had to do something for their kids and future generations. VoLo Foundation exists to be the bridge between the science community and everyone else. The Foundation's work accelerates change and global impact by supporting science-based climate change solutions, enhancing education, and improving health. Climate Correction™ is the premier climate solutions event in the Southeast. The main stage event brings top minds in climate solutions to one stage. Now, their cutting-edge research and solutions-focused education are available for streaming all year long on VoLo's Climate Correction Podcast. Podcast Host Shannon Maganiezin leads VoLo Foundation's public-facing initiatives, working closely with the press, media, and strategic partners to amplify VoLo's mission and impact.
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